organicism Hear it!

organicism definition

or·gani·cism (-ə siz′əm)

noun

  1. holism
  2. the theory that living processes are a function of the entire, coordinated, autonomous system of an organism, rather than of any of its parts

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Comments
Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.